Deconstruction Quotations

Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke.

Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional.

There is nothing outside the text

Deconstruction: peering suspiciously at the text, I wait for it to make a slip and betray itself.

Deconstruction glorifies the critic, humiliates the author, and makes the reader wonder why he bothered.